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Running Rails3 with force_ssl = true, with nginx, on AWS EC2 with SSL terminated by an ELB, setting up health check

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http://serverfault.com – I want to run my entire Rails app with SSL, so I thought to use Rails' global force_ssl config option, which works great, except that the ELB's healthchecker will never work because if I set it to http, Rails will forward to https with a 301, and the health check will fail since it is not 200. If I set it to https, nginx/rails will be unable to handle the request, since SSL is handled by the ELB and nginx/rails is only handling HTTP. My non-ideal solution would be to make an exception to the global force_ssl just for the health check page, but Rails' global force_ssl config always overrides t (HowTos)

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Submitted by grtyyu on 12/28/2012

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